10+ hour, 10+ min ago  (1209+ words) Literary Hub Writing in Exile: Why Russian Dissident Literature Demands Our Attention Katherine Kelaidis on the Russian Writers Defying Putin's Regime from Abroad Recently, in a small bookshop in Paris (it is, in fact, called La Petite Librairie), I found…...

9+ hour, 42+ min ago  (36+ words) Literary Hub Holly Golightly Sleep Mask, $30 Vintage NYPL Stamp Tote Bag, $68 IKEA PO'NG Desk, $200 In which Lit Hub staffers recommend things they like (that you might too)....

10+ hour, 9+ min ago  (492+ words) When I started my career as a professional literary translator, I began coming up against a mysterious "English reader" whom academics and editors kept referring to when they looked over my work, leaving comments like, "the English reader will find…...

9+ hour, 45+ min ago  (797+ words) As much as I dreamed of being a wealthy, prize-winning writer'a Manchester United of literature, let's say'that fantasy never really came together for me. I was more of a Wolverhampton of literature. As I waited to hear back from the…...

10+ hour, 19+ min ago  (954+ words) Literary Hub What's Next For Nation-States? On the Past, Present and Future of the World As We Know It Rana Dasgupta Considers Old and New Possibilities For the Organization of Geopolitical Power "[Revolutionary tracts tend] to become mere annals of…...

9+ hour, 38+ min ago  (563+ words) Could you please pick that up?" I ask Rafa, pointing to the plastic T. rex he dropped face down on the floor. He shakes his head. He's sleeping." I groan, throwing my head back. Rafa smiles and picks up another dinosaur…...

10+ hour, 26+ min ago  (895+ words) Literary Hub Alice and Me: How My Struggle With Cancer Mirrored My Protagonist's Caitlin Shetterly on Grappling With the Uncanny Parallels Between Real Life and Fiction I was supposed to have my mammogram months before. But I was writing a…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (299+ words) Literary Hub Lit Hub Weekly: May 11 - 15, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - "The waxing and waning fortunes of languages are inevitably historical and political questions, and these questions are likewise delirium-inducing if we sit with them honestly." The benefits of…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (960+ words) He cooked and we ate our entire dinner including dessert out of one cast-iron frying pan, scooping up the last of the chocolate ice cream embedded with bits of grilled onion and potato. Our spoons, the only dishes I needed…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (778+ words) The science fiction writer Dan Simmons passed away on Feb 21, 2026 at the age of 77. When I was living in Denver, working as a school teacher and attempting to break into novel writing, I got to know Dan a little bit....